Fw: Elphinstone Institute Public Events 2025–26

[Burrows, Hannah]

Dear All,

Please see below from our colleagues in the Elphinstone Institute, which may be of interest to many of our members!

All best,

Hannah

Dr Hannah Burrows, FRHistS
Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies

Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies

University of Aberdeen · Crombie Annexe (CA102) · Meston Walk · Aberdeen · AB24 3FX

Honorary Secretary, Viking Society for Northern Research

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From: Thenorth <then...@abdn.ac.uk>
Sent: 01 October 2025 12:46
To: Thenorth <then...@abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Elphinstone Institute Public Events 2025–26

 

Hi all , Please find below from Nick Le Bigre, of Elphinstone Institute in case of interest😊Thanks in advance if you could please share widely with your contacts. Best wishes, Jill  Tel: +44 (0)1224 272166 Emai: then...@abdn.ac.uk

 

The Elphinstone Institute events guide for 2025–2026 has now been published.

We have a fantastic line-up of events and activities in celebration of our 30th anniversary. Festivals like Button Boxes & Moothies in October and the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in June will fill the musical calendar, complementing our lecture series with talks on, for example, the Stonehaven fireballs (16 Oct) and Palestinian folktales and memory (21 May), not to mention our ethnographic film series, the Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival (including a Norwegian storyteller), a ballad bus round the North-East, and much more.

Kind regards,
Nick

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Nicolas Le Bigre

Lecturer and Archivist

The Elphinstone Institute
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, AB24 5UA
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1224 272997
n.le...@abdn.ac.uk

 

Please note that I work part time: Monday–Thursday.

 

Recent Publications:

 

‘Ethnography as Privilege, Risk-Taking, and Play during the Covid-19 Pandemic’, in Born to Play, ed. by Tam Baillie and John H. McKendrick (Glasgow: CCWB Press, 2025), pp. 101–12.

 

‘Resistance through the Temporality, Placement, and Modification of Street Art in Scotland’s Streets’, Ethnologia Fennica, 50, no. 1 (2023), 50–78.

 

‘Play and Vulnerability in Scotland during the Covid-19 Pandemic’, in Play in a COVID-19 Frame, ed. by Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023), 239–64.

 

‘Contesting “Integration”: Personal-Experience Narratives of Scotland’s Immigrants’, Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali, 11 (2022), 29–39.

 

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.